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Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle
At re:publica, Digital Minister Wildberger advocates for more sovereignty and calls for alternatives to digital payments and social media.
According to Wildberger, German and European IT solutions offer the opportunity to create platforms and build technologies that are based on "our values". Currently, over 75 percent of European cloud data is "in the hands of US hyperscalers", the minister said, referring to the strength of AWS, Google, Microsoft & Co. The former manager also believes there is an urgent need for alternative offers for digital payments "that are accepted and give citizens a more secure feeling".
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